ABOUT coproc Bash 4.0 introduced coprocesses, a feature certainly familiar to ksh users. The coproc keyword starts a command as a background job, setting up pipes connected to both its stdin and stdout so that you can interact with it bidirectionally. Optionally, the co-process can have a name NAME. If NAME is given, the command …
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